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Atlassian News Q1 2023 and What To Expect at Atlassian Team 23

Atlassian News Q1 2023 and What To Expect at Atlassian Team 23

In 2023, Atlassian continues to evolve with new product features, target markets and demographics. This is keeping their leader status for collaboration and productivity tools. Atlassian software is used by thousands of companies worldwide to manage projects, track...

The Top 9 DevOps Trends For 2023 And Beyond

The Top 9 DevOps Trends For 2023 And Beyond

Firstly, if you’re unfamiliar with DevOps, you can check out this video that covers all the basics and how it will benefit your company. But, essentially DevOps is about integrating software development practices, and the processes and procedures of IT Operations. In...

Cloud Security: The Shared Responsibilty Model Explained

Cloud Security: The Shared Responsibilty Model Explained

Transformative tech trends like the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and dispersed workforces have increased cloud adoption. Why? Because it provides the ability for agility, productivity, and scalability like no other...

Solving for the “Islands of Jenkins”

Solving for the “Islands of Jenkins”

In October 2022, I wrote a blog post entitled “Scaling Jenkins for the Enterprise”.  Within it, I described the “Islands of Jenkins” problem organizations face. Essentially, this problem stems from companies using an open-source Jenkins installation for each team, but...

The Top Reasons to Pick Premium Atlassian Cloud Plans

The Top Reasons to Pick Premium Atlassian Cloud Plans

As I engage with clients in their journey to Atlassian Cloud, I am often asked about capabilities that differentiate the different Atlassian Cloud plans.  “What’s the difference between Standard, Premium, and Enterprise?”  Because there has been a theme to the...

2022 Technology Year in Review

2022 Technology Year in Review

In the past 3 years, our world has definitely changed.  This year was no exception.  From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to the great resignation, businesses have had to adapt to changing government regulations, employee needs, and methods of doing business. ...

Latest Atlassian Product News from Q4 2022

Latest Atlassian Product News from Q4 2022

As we do every quarter, SPK’s team reviews the latest Atlassian product updates.  In this blog post, we’ll cover announcements that happened between September 2022 and December 2022.  As you probably know, Atlassian updates their Cloud and on-premise products on a...

Confluence Cloud Tutorial for Beginners

Confluence Cloud Tutorial for Beginners

Hello and welcome to this video Confluence Cloud tutorial for beginners. I'm Michael Roberts, Vice President at SPK and Associates. Today, we're exploring Confluence which is an Atlassian product. You can either watch the video above, or read the transcript below....

Jira Cloud vs Azure DevOps Cost: Are You Paying Too Much?

Jira Cloud vs Azure DevOps Cost: Are You Paying Too Much?

Choosing the right issue and feature tracking tools to manage your software development lifecycle is important. It can be the difference between speed to market, budget savings and even boosting DevOps team morale. Whilst there are plenty of tools in the market, in...

Storytelling with Data

Storytelling with Data

Telling a story and telling a story with data are similar, but also different. And many of the differences are points that people don’t consider.  In this blog, we’ll try to break down the components of storytelling with data in an effort to share main points to...

DevOps World 2022 Recap And More From CloudBees

DevOps World 2022 Recap And More From CloudBees

DevOps World 2022 was originally set to take place in Orlando, FL on Wednesday 28th September and Thursday 29th September.  Unfortunately, Hurricane Ian had other plans and the DevOps World in-person component was canceled. Instead, a virtual conference was launched....

Data Engineering Supports Digital Transformation

Data Engineering Supports Digital Transformation

Data engineering supports digital transformation. Fact. But, how do companies move away from more paper processes and towards digital transformation? It’s not easy. And, the larger the organization, the more difficult it is. Companies can take solace in knowing there...